Jamshid Ghaboussi is Professor Emeritus at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has over 45 years of experience in teaching and research in Computational Mechanics, Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing in Engineering Applications. David Pecknold is a Professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has more than 40 years teaching, consulting and university and industrial research experience in structural mechanics, dynamics and development of mathematical models and computer simulation techniques. Dr. Xiping Wu is a Principal Engineer in Civil and Marine Engineering with Shell International Exploration & Production Inc.

"An excellent introduction to non-linear computational mechanics addressed to Masters students interested in the mechanics of structures."-- Laurent Delannay, Université Catholique de Louvain"...a useful combination of material that I would refer to in both my teaching of undergraduate/masters students and to introduce PhD students to particular aspects in computational mechanics."-- William Coombs, Durham University "This book is intended to provide much of that necessary background in an accessible form. The book can serve as a reference for engineers, analysts and software developers in practice, as well as a graduate course text."-- Jan Sladek, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol 1381

• Chapter 1 Introduction. Chapter 2 Kinematics of nonlinear deformation. Chapter 3 Stresses in deformable bodies. Chapter 4 Work and virtual work. Chapter 5 Elastic material properties. Chapter 6 Stress Invariants and material tests. Chapter 7 Elasto-plastic Material Models. Chapter 8 Nonlinear solid finite elements. Chapter 9 Kinematics of large rotations. Chapter 10 Structural elements. Chapter 11 Solution Methods. Chapter 12 Soft computing in computational mechanics.